> They are a pain though with word as it's very difficult to find where styles
> are not applied or are modified and it can go crazy over small modifications.
> The only sane way I found to work with styles in word is in outline mode,
> which
> is much closer to latex in approach.
Outline mode is that mode which OpenOffice does not have. And that is
huge limitation for me personally. Second advantage of Word XP or 2003
is that, it adds every manual modification to the text format to the
list of styles and in proper mode, you can find all of non-standard
formatting and standardize them - but this is huge work of course.
LyX creates environment for content creativity, leaving formatting job
as second task done by packages of manual tweaking of LaTeX code - as
a programmer and big passionate of DTP I accept this approach as much
better than using word processor.
Disadvantage of classic DTP software (Scribus, Ventura, InDesign,
PageMaker, QuarkXPress) is that you need to have almost completed text
to flow it on pages and every change is often a challenge, but visual
effects could be really great. LaTeX is a balance between nice look
and possibility of quick content change, LyX simplifies the job.
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